by IMIT | May 24, 2017 | Community Event
Local cane farmer improves natural areas Giru cane farmer John Cernusco is partnering with NQ Dry Tropics to plant native vegetation along a lagoon on his property to reduce weeds and restore habitat. NQ Dry Tropics project officer Thijs Krugers is working with Mr...
by IMIT | May 24, 2017 | Community Event
Grazing takes grass back to its roots Graziers are always looking for ways to improve their grazing management, and landholders from the Burdekin Dry Tropics region have had the chance to do just that, through Grazing Naturally workshops. Hosted by NQ Dry Tropics and...
by IMIT | Dec 5, 2016 | Community Event, Wetlands
Plastic shopping bags, drinks bottles, crab pots, bicycle tyres and a bollard were just some of the items that filled more than 20 large sacks of rubbish on Saturday during a community clean up of popular fishing spot Aplins Weir. More than thirty dedicated locals...
by IMIT | Nov 4, 2016 | Community Event, Wetlands
Forty volunteers collect 50kg rubbish in two hours in Great Northern Clean Up A microphone, a basketball, a dozen thongs, and a seemingly endless number of plastic bottles and cigarette butts – these are examples of just some of the rubbish found and removed from the...
by IMIT | Oct 31, 2016 | Community Event
Graziers take opportunity to network and learn at Clothes Peg Station From managing animal nutrition in the dry season to adopting strategic planning tools for business development: fifteen graziers from across northern Queensland discussed some of their key...
by IMIT | Oct 25, 2016 | Community Event
Local landcare community groups and students from Shalom Christian College in Townsville recently took to the Ross River to learn about the invasive water weed sagittaria, its impacts and how to record sightings to limit its spread. Like many water weeds, sagittaria...
